I first went to Jen over 10 years ago. I followed her to 3 studios, and since my first appointment with her, no one else touched my hair. She always knew exactly what I wanted and how to execute it, and took me through long, swishy cuts with dazzling color to shaggy multi-layered textural masterpieces and could somehow always manage to style my obstinate, baby-fine hair so that I could have a bodacious Bridget Bardot waterfall of bouncing, voluminous waves on the days I left her salon. Then, I moved to Ohio. I had my first haircut in Ohio, and it was... meh. Then I had the impulse to change the length I'd been wearing for many years, and went to a different stylist to have it cropped to my shoulders. It looked... boring. So two weeks later I went to another salon and asked for something asymmetrical and edgy. The cut was cool, but it looked pretty stupid with my face. I decided to grow it out. Maybe I'm just meant to have long, unruly hair that has to be worn up all the time. As it was growing out, it started to go through a real soccer mom phase. In desperation, I made an appointment with my 4th Ohio stylist, asking for movement and shape. Well, that didn't work out either. So when I booked a flight to Providence to visit some friends, I immediately booked an appointment with Jen. "I might be trying to grow it out," I said, "but also wearing it short is so easy and I've been looking at all these photos of 1960's Vidal Sassoon cuts, and I want my left eyebrow to show because I like that one but not the right, and I want this part to curl a bit, and I want my head to kind of look like an acorn, you know?" And of course Jen did know, and gave me EXACTLY what I wanted only 10 times better, and now fml because my haircuts are going to include the cost of air travel because I don't care if I live in Ohio, she's my girl for life and NO ONE ELSE IS EVER TOUCHING MY HAIR AGAIN. Which is actually fine because her cuts tend to last 6-12 months and still look great. Hair artist or dark wizard? Probably both.